Motivational Quotes

Experience

Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.

- Mcluhan, Marshall

Best Quotes about Experience

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

Peale, Norman Vincent

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present. For what one has lived is at best comparable to a beautiful statue which has had all its limbs knocked off in transit, and now yields nothing but the precious block out of which the image of one's future must be hewn.

Benjamin, Walter

Out of the multitude of our sense experiences we take, mentally and arbitrarily, certain repeatedly occurring complexes of sense impression (partly in conjunction with sense impressions which are interpreted as signs for sense experiences of others), and we attribute to them a meaning the meaning of the bodily object.

Einstein, Albert

Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald.

Proverb, Chinese

Experience is a private, and a very largely speechless affair.

Baldwin, James

No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.

Glasgow, Ellen

Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.

Tracy, Brian

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Oh, how bitter it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

Grenfell, Wilfred T.

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Experience is what keeps a man who makes the same mistake twice from admitting it the third time around.

Mccormick, Terry

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Experience. The wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Experience is something you get too late to do anything about the mistakes you made while getting it.

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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.

Doctorow, E. L.

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Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.

Carter, Angela

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He who has been bitten by a snake fears a piece of string.

Proverb, Persian

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Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.

Billings, Josh

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In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.

Getty, J. Paul

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But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

Eliot, George

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We learn through experience and experiencing, and no one teaches anyone anything. This is as true for the infant moving from kicking to crawling to walking as it is for the scientist with his equations. If the environment permits it, anyone can learn whatever he chooses to learn; and if the individual permits it, the environment will teach him everything it has to teach.

Spolin, Viola

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Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.

Butterworth, Eric

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You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past -- whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

Dylan, Bob

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You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing.

Bax, Arnold

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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

Barry LePatner

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Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

Billings, Josh

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It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

Kafka, Franz

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It is all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

Jagger, Mick

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A careful inventory of all your past experiences may disclose the startling fact that everything has happened for the best.

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In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.

Geneen, Harold S.

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We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it -- and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again -- and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

Twain, Mark

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You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Albert Camus

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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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A strong and secure man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds alike) just as he digests his meat, even when he has some bits to swallow.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.

LeMond, Greg

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If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.

Proverb, Italian

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I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

Hepburn, Audrey

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Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.

Benson, Ezra Taft

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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.

Daumal, Rene

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Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

Rohn, Jim

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Experience is a wonderful thing, it enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

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The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. But he won't sit upon a cold stove lid, either.

Twain, Mark